@brandon neither did I. but some times Twitter tosses up some precious gems. That one was by Asa Dotzler. Sucks that I feel it irrelevant to share among people i know in real life because they are all stuck with chrome

I now use Qutebrowser as my main browser with Falkon as my secondary, both use the qtwebengine backend which is based from blink/chromium project. I hardly use Brave these days and not used Firefox in what seems like forever

@jason qutebrowser is impractical for my use case. one web engine doesn't allow desktop notifications and the other engine does not allow full screen videos. why do i need to choose when other browsers allow both? dunno if i have tried falkon serriously though.

@brandon only thing it should have and should remain different and which it doesn't completely do is to depend on third party services or be non transparent about what they are putting into the application, what they are collecting, etc.

@algorev haven't thought of that. although i did try and it looks like these filters work on their own only. probably someone can enhance the query happening in the backend. probably avoided for performance reasons?

@kurisu ctrl-k and type the search term. although latest firefox has dared the user to optionally get rid of the search bar and look like chrome some more. I'm yet to try your 3.4kbps example. that example just sounds like something I'd use to show firefox down. :P

@kurisu I have beeen there too. so my hands just learnt ctrl-k without me looking and am not so google fan though I actively have email and Keep. Firefox isn't a preference as much as just trying to support it and hoping it gets better. in some ways it has. in some ways it hasn't become creepy.

@kurisu i dunno if you are into programming but that uses a bunch of periods as well. like you want to search os.system and not land up on a website called os.system, right? A quick experiment tells me I can prepend strings with '.' in them with @ sign and it would send the string to your favorite search engine rather than treat it as an URL. Haa! No need to move to chrome for me! :P :D